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The war events at Telavåg make
chilling reading, but have been summed up by the Norwegians in the phrase

"They burnt our homes,
they killed our men"

Probably the worst act of reprisal was the assault on the fishing
village of Telavåg in the spring of 1942.

Two Gestapo officers had been shot and killed there on the 26th April
1942 by two men brought over from Shetland.

One of the agents, Arne Vaerum, was also killed in the ensuing battle,
the other agent being Emil G Hvaal. They had come from Shetland, and
landed outside Telavåg earlier that month.

They both belonged to the Norwegian Independent Company Number 1,
popularly known as the Linge company (Kompani Linge). This company
was specially trained in Scotland for missions to occupied Norway.

The German retaliation for this shooting was terrible. The male
population of Telavåg was sent to a concentration camp where 31 of them
died. The women and children from the village were interned.
The village itself was levelled to the ground.

M/S Fernanda

Reichkommisar Josef Terboven and his
officers in Telavåg, 30th April 1942

Laurits and Martha Telle´s house

Destroying Laurits Telle´s house, 30th
April 1942

The boys and men (from 16 years - 60 years
old) and their first steps towards Sachsenhausen concentration camp

The burning of Telavåg

The elderly people were interned at the
Framnes school in Hardanger (Summer 1942 - 17th May 1944)

Some of the Telavåg-prisoners at the
Storetveit school

The children are having a meal at the
Storetveit school, where they were interned at first (May 1942 - August
1942)